NS2's EMP Shockwave

yourbonesakin

<div class="IPBDescription">Killing AComm structures' energy</div>Marines can annihilate all the energy of alien commander's structures with a researchable Tier 2 weapon usable by marines. I would prefer it as an addon to the marine assault rifle (like the grenade launcher). The marines could disable structures by blasting them repeatedly, but would only be able to do this for about 15-20 seconds (perhaps the weapon has a cooldown or only has 15-20 seconds worth of ammunition). Marines would of course be unable to fire bullets while using the energy draining weapon repeatedly.

The weapon would have a small or zero area of effect, draining only one structure or two very adjacent structures simultaneously.

Mature versions of alien commander structures will be more resistant to this attack (either delaying the drain or only losing half of total energy?).

spellman23

Perhaps a better mechanic would be the shock wipes a certain amount of energy, and there's upgrades for the AComm to increase the max cap of energy a building can store up.

This would also give flexibility for balance to determine how much to zap per shot and play with the maximum stored energy.

Runteh

I would really like to see something like this for marines, perhaps drop able by the commander on location. Would be cool.

Is it attached to the build bot currently?